In his recent National Catholic Register post, “Why the world doesn’t take Catholicism seriously,” Matthew Warner addresses the question of why American Catholics are leaving the Church at an alarming rate. His answer is this: “We Catholics don’t look or…

The annual audit on diocesan compliance with the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People showed a decline in the number of abuse allegations, victims and offenders in 2012. The “2012 Survey of Allegations and Costs” report, conducted…